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Subject:help read japanese text on a print 2 of 2
Posted By: francis minvielle Tue, Jul 23, 2024 IP: 88.161.198.9
This print with Dutch people belongs to a series. One of them shows Africans with some kind of a satiric text that I. Nagy kindly translated for me. I wonder whether this new print contains a similar text. Thank you to read it and translate it!!



Subject:Re: help read japanese text on a print 2 of 2
Posted By: I.Nagy Wed, Jul 24, 2024
亞墨利加國
亞墨利加
第一世話聖東
名ハ業阿尓熱
天文地理に通と云
America
America's first man is Washington,
whose given-name is George
It is said he is good at astronomy and geography

With regards,
I.Nagy

Subject:Re: help read japanese text on a print 2 of 2
Posted By: francis minvielle Thu, Jul 25, 2024
Thanks a lot. You have found that the text in the African print of the same series was a play on two ambiguous word combinations. Can you find a similar play in the text on G Washington?

Subject:Re: help read japanese text on a print 2 of 2
Posted By: I.Nagy Thu, Jul 25, 2024
If nothing else, the reading of some syllabaries attached to the characters can be interpreted in a different way with a slight twist:
第一世話聖東名
だいいちせわしんとんな
Dai-ichi sewajin donna*
*(donna →　danna = master)
ca. Primary master caretaker ...

Regards,
I.Nagy

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